March 20, 2017

Jess has it tough—two jobs, an
estranged husband who doesn’t contribute any child support, a stepson who gets
bullied, a gifted daughter who due to financial difficulties cannot get a top
education, and a guard dog that sleeps more than guards.

Ed is a successful man living in
the city, recently divorced but the owner of two homes and two cars and eats
out every night. After a bad business decision Ed is investigated for insider
trading. To hang low while his case is sorted he retreats to his seaside home
where he meets Jess – his cleaner.

From here Jess and Ed’s lives are
thrown together out of necessity—necessary because Jess needs to get her
daughter to a maths Olympiad in order to win the prize money to get her through
private school, and necessary because Ed has realised how bad loneliness is,
and is also in need to redeem himself from his own conscious.

The book starts out as a
dysfunctional family drama and slowly ebbs into romance a little bit before the
half way point. It’s not soppy romance either, but the kind that seems natural
and not forced.